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Department Faculty

Andarawis-Puri, Nelly
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2008
Research focus: The general objective of her lab is to determine the structural and regulatory role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) of the tendon in the pathogenesis of tendinopathy and impaired healing of ruptured tendons.

353 Upson Hall
607 255-1650

Avedisian, C. Thomas
Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1980
Research focus: Research is being done in the broad areas of heat transfer and energy systems. Projects include droplet combustion, film boiling to promote thermal decomposition or organic liquids, and phase change processes of highly superheated liquids.

193 Grumman Hall
607 592-7915

Barthelmie, Rebecca J.
David Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Research focus: Wind energy resources and wind turbine wakes within and downwind of large wind farms both on- and offshore. Involving measurements, particularly the application of remote sensing including lidar, modeling and data analysis of large wind farm data sets.

313 Upson Hall
607 255-6423

Bewley, Gregory Paul
Assistant Professor, Gordon Lankton Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
Research focus: Turbulence, both its intrinsic properties and its role in various environmental settings. In clouds, turbulence causes droplets to collide. In superfluid helium, it causes quantized vortices to reconnect. Left to itself, the turbulence slowly dissipates.

Bouklas, Nikolaos
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2014
Research focus: Theoretical and computational solid mechanics. The fundamental study of soft materials, active materials and biomaterials, fracture and instabilities, as well as multiscale modelling in coupled multi-physical systems.

Diaz Artiles, Ana
Research Associate and Lecturer
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
Research focus: Human component of spaceflight, with strong emphasis on the biomedical, human factors, and mission design aspects of space exploration. Use of experimental and modeling approaches to study human performance in altered gravity environments.

463 Upson Hall
607 255-3249

Erickson, David Carl
Sibley College Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2004
Research focus: Mobile and global health technology, microfluidics, photonics, and nanotechnology.

369 Upson Hall
607 255-4861

Esmaily, Mahdi
Assistant Professor
Research focus: Emerging applications in cardiovascular mechanics and biological flows and, development of computational techniques for such problems.

MacMartin, Douglas Graham
Sr. Research Associate and Sr. Lecturer
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992
Research focus: Dynamics, feedback analysis, and control design, primarily applied to climate science and geoengineering the climate. Includes (applied) system identification and optimization. Interests also include structural dynamics, acoustics, and flow control.

Ruina, Andy
John F. Carr Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Brown University, 1981
Research focus: Dynamics, especially of locomotion, and within that, especially the energetics and balance of walking, biking and boating, both human and robotic. Other interests include the mechanics of friction and collisions.

Shepherd, Robert
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2010
Research focus: The liquid phase processing and additive manufacturing of soft robots. We focus on the material and mechanical design of soft robots, as well as reliable manufacturing methods.

Wang, Z. Jane
Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996
Research focus: Much of our work is driven by our desire to see and conceptualize the world around us. We strive to find sharp and intuitive answers to inter-connected puzzles in complex systems.